Coin-holding card.



vmanned Aug. 6, 1912.

P. K. ARNOLD.

GOIN HOLDING GARD.

APIPLIGATION FILED JAN. 9. 1912.

TIoN or MASSACHUSETTS.

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, .assIGNon 'ro NAsHUA GARD GUMMED a coATED PAPER COMPANY, or

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, A CORPORA- coin-HULDING chan.

Speeication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912'.

Application mea January 9, 1912. serial No. 670,267.

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. acter Bev it known that I, FRANK K. AR-NoLm-a subject of the King of Great Britain. and a resident of Nashua, in the county of Hillsboro. and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCoinHolding Cards, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to means for facilitating the't-ransportation of coins by mail, and re-fers particularly to that type of coin carrier or holder which consists of a flat member comprising one or morethicknesses of card board said members having slits or slots, through which the coinmay be partially inserted so as to be retained therein and held from shifting about in an envelop inclosing a card. Y The object of the invention is to provide ay sim-ple and practicalidevice of the charmentioned which can be manufactured at an exceedingly low cost, and to these ends my invention consists in the card constructed substantially as 'hereinafter described and claimed. y

Of the accompanying drawings,+`Figure l is a plan view of a card constructed according. to my invention, the coin would occupy when assembled with the card being indicated by a dotted circle.

Fig. 2 is a .view similar to Fig. 1, illustrat-V ing a modification. Fig. 3 represents a sectionA on line 3 3 of Fig. 2 and lshowing a coin in place. y

Similar reference characters'indicate the same or similar parts on all of the views.

.Referring first to Fig. 1, a card of suitable material, such 'as paste-board, is indicated at 5. Preferably at substantially thev center of the card there are formed angular slots or slits as indicated in said figure. The slit 6 'which will be referred to hereinafter as the entrance slit, is a rentrant one. In other words, there are twoslits which meet each other at an angle, said slits being parallel with radii of the circular space that is to be occupied by the coin.- 'Iwo other slits are formed which are also rentrant angles, and for purposes of distinction, they willv be referred to hereinafter as the supporting slits. The formation of the slits as shown results in providing a bridge piece or guard 8 having three radial arms, said bridge piecebeing, .of course, integral with 5 the body of the card. It will be observed that each arm of the entrance slot than the adjacent arm o f the slit 7 sc that the position whichy 6 is longer two lines drawn from the two ends of slit 6, down to the ends of the slits if, below, would be substantially parallel. This is so that when the coin indicated by dotted lines is inserted through the slit 6 in the direction of the arrow, such act will not tear or extend the entrance slit 6.

hev coin, is assembled with the cardV by pushing it through the slit 6, under the bridge piece 8 and then upwardly, through the slit 7, until the lower end of the coin nearly reaches the lower end of the two reentrant angle slits?, thel coin then having one face supported'by the triangular portions of the bodyv of the card. that project into the `rentrant angles of the slits, the upper face of the coin being held by the threefarmed bridge piece 8.

I For many'purposes the coin will be sutilclently held by friction, but I prefer to provide means for preventing any possibility of the coin returning toward'the direction from which it was inserted. To attain this object, I form a detent tab 9 by means of a U-shaped cut so that after the coin has been inserted into the position described, and as indicated by the dotted'circle in Fig. 1, the tab 9 can be pushed upwardly and sprung past and above the upper edge of the coin, thereby locking the coin securely in place under the bridge piece 8.

It will be noticed thatV the slits 6 and 7, are not formed by single line cuts, but are formed by removing some of the material4 of the card. This renders iteasier to insert the coin as described and reduces liability of tearing or lengthening the ends of the slits.

The card as described can easily be manufactured b v a single operation of properly constructed dies, which dies may also carrymeans for impressing in the surface of the card an arrow to indicate the point from which the coin should be started and the direction in which it should be moved when assembling, vand the dies may also impress in the surface of the card suitable words to indicate where the'coin may be inserted, and also the denomination of the particular coin for lwhich the card is intended.

Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a slight modification' which, however requires the use of a double card or a backing under the main 110 card. In this form the card 5 is cut outt form three segmental sl'ts 10. The ends of the slits 11 and 12 are formed the same as the ends of the slits .6 and 7 in Fig. 1, said slitsv extending beyond the outer edges of the segmental slots 10 so that` the resulting bridge piece 13 may be deiected upward suiciently to permit a coin of the proper size to be slipped under the bridge piece, the edge of the coin fitting within the outer margin o the three slots 10. Thel two entrance slits 11 are longer than the slits 12 for the same purpose as hereinbefore described in connection with the entrance slit 6 of the form shown in Fig. 1.

When the diameter of vided by the three segmental slots '10 under the bridge piece v13, is greater than that of the coin to be used in connection with 'this structure, it is essential that a'backingbe provided to prevent the coin from drop mg through. Such backing as illustrated in ig. 3 is a card 14 which is adhesively secured to the main card 5, but of course not secured to the card 13. If the coin is larger than the diameter of the pocket provided by the segmental slots 10 then no backing such-as at 14 will be necessary. It will be seen that in each form I have provided a structure wherein the card has three radial pairs of into/ the pocket formed the pocket proi slits, the slits of each pair being substantially parallel, thereby providing a bridge piece which comprises three radial arms that are integral with the card. rI`he card so constructed can be made'at an exceedingly low cost and it will firmly hold the com to prevent any lateral slipping.

the assemblage of the coin with the card can -be easily effected. By forming the' entrance slit or slits longer than the others, the assemblage is facilitated without detracting from the capability of the*- device to securely retain the coin in place.-

1. 'A card slitted lto form three aps and a three-armed bridge-piece, the middlev of each flap' lying opposite the arm of the bridge-plece between the other two flaps.

2. A card slitted to form three flaps anda three-armed bridge-piece, each flap lying .opposite the' arm of the bridge-piece between the other .two Yflaps, means being provided orlocking a coin under the bridge-piece.

In' testimony whereof I have aixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

` FRANK K. ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

` v JAMES V. LAw'roN,

EvERE'rT G.,LAWREN0E.

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